Heat transfer in microcellular polystyrene/multi-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposite foams
Author(s): Chul B. Park, Mehdi Saniei, Minh-Phuong Tran, Pengjian Gong, Petra Potschke, Piyapong Buahom
Polystyrene/multi-walled carbon nanotube (PS/MWCNT) nanocomposite foams were prepared in order to determine if these foams exhibited a reduced thermal conductivity in comparison to pristine polystyrene foam. The thermal ...
Keywords: Carbon nanotubes, CNTs, Foams, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, FTIR, nanocomposites, Polymeric Foams, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), SEM, TEM, thermal insulation, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method, Transmission electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
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